Where does “Kojote” come from?

Kojote (German) comes from Spanish coyote, from Classical Nahuatl coyōtl, from Nahuatl *koyoo-tl.

Kojote (German): coyote, "Canis latrans"

Definitions

  1. coyote, "Canis latrans"

Ancestry of “Kojote”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcoyotecoyote; fixer, middleman; a person of mixed...
2Classical Nahuatlcoyōtlcoyote
3Nahuatl*koyoo-tl—
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